Nonprofits & NGOs
Addressing Cultural Appropriation and Repairing Harm
A model for lasting change through authentic, transformational partnership.
Nonprofits & NGOs Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively
Nonprofits & NGOs
Funding the Fourth Estate
Philanthropists have been accused of donating disproportionately to major media outlets. An alliance of small news nonprofits seeks to make funding more equitable to save the news industry.
Nonprofits & NGOs
How Consultants Shape Nonprofits: Shared Values, Unintended Consequences
An excerpt from How Consultants Shape Nonprofits on the history of nonprofit consulting
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The Four Principles of a Breathing Organization
From Model Ts to tea, organizations devoted to human flourishing need to build the human architecture for their people to breathe.
Scale Really Matters
The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
When Compliance Aims to Silence
A look at the motivations behind and impact of a new law limiting nonprofit fundraising in Ecuador, and how civil society organizations are coming together to reclaim their agency.
After the Big Bet
Four funding pathways doers are pursuing to sustain resources and impact following the big bet.
Funding the Invisible
How nonprofits in countries with conflict and closing civil spaces are doubly penalized in the funding world, and 10 ways funders can better serve them.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.